Review of Joy Kwesiga's Women's Access to Higher Education in Africa: Uganda'…
The book is divided into two sections: Part One describes women's access to formal education in sub-Saharan Africa and Uganda particularly. Here Kwesiga explains theories and concepts underpinning …
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Women and Land Resettlement in Zimbabwe
Peasant demand for land is one of the crucial issues determining Zimbabwe's strategy for agrarian transformation. Yet women's demand for land has been ignored. Susie Jacobs traces the development o…
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Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?
Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of “adaptive preference” makes preference-utilitarian measures of we…
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Standpoint: “Murderous women”? Rethinking gender and theories of violence
Given the high rates of gender-based and other forms of violence, it is understandable that substantial local research has focused on violence perpetrated by men (Boonzaier and de la Rey, 2004; Jew…
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Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and…
In this paper, my objective is to interrogate gender and allied concepts based on African cultural experiences and epistemologies. The focus here is on the nuclear family system, which is a specif…
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The Fight for Control of African Women's Mobility in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-…
As in the rest of southern Africa, physical mobility was a crucial issue in the relationship between the colonial rulers and the ruled in colonial Zimbabwe (or southern Rhodesia, as it was named by…
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Not One, Not Two: Toward an Ontology of Pregnancy
Basic understandings of subjectivity are derived from principles of masculine embodiment such as discreteness. But pregnancy challenges such understandings because it represents a sort of splitti…
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Reflections on South African's Anti-eviction Campaign
This article focuses on the Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) in Cape Town, South Africa, which is part of the larger anti-privatization movement, mobilized by disadvantaged township residents to asse…
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Awkward Activisms: Gender and Embodied Mobilization in a Postapartheid South …
The focus of this article, however, is not primarily disciplinary paradigms or the tension of inhabiting incompatible orientations with regard to the ethnographic context of my research. Such con…
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Selected abstracts from the Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conferen…
Breastfeeding rates vary widely around the world, and change over time. Currently, as summarised in the recent Lancet series, poorer women in low and middle-income countries have higher rates of …
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